anterior to
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The document they produced was, Beard argued, “essentially an economic document based upon the concept that the fundamental private rights of property are anterior to government and morally beyond the reach of popular majorities.”
From Salon • Oct. 21, 2025
In all vertebrate multiple Hox clusters control the development of the body plan and they too show the sequential anterior to posterior arrangement in the genome.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
They are arranged in the order in which they are expressed, from anterior to posterior.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2018
The book lung looks like a book with many pages and is located just anterior to a spiracle in the ventral abdomen.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
This might imply that the execution of min shêng was to be coincidental with or anterior to the fulfillment of nationalism; it probably does not.224.d'Elia translation, cited, p.
From The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I by Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony
